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Thoughts Before Dawn
Jun. 20th, 2006 05:11 am1. Loving acceptance is one of the greatest gifts we can give each other.
2. So is honest, respectful challenge.
3. Bodies are delicious, but meaningless to me unless you also expose and share your mind and soul.
4. Family is sacred.
5. Chivalry is not so much a 'masculine' virtue as it is a virtue of the powerful. The courtesy and self-restraint that are characterized as "chivalrous" only have meaning if they are exercised by one who is free, by status or strength, to abuse or otherwise take advantage of another.
6. I would enjoy and find more satisfaction in housework if it, like study, resulted in enduring gains, not a temporary victory over entropy.
7. Why is it that an increase in a community's affluence tends to decrease the value placed on Hospitality, instead of the other way around? (Actually, the answer "Because it becomes less urgent for survival" comes to mind.)
8. Q: Why did I invoke some of my avatars in email with one of my best male friends yesterday, instead of owning my conflicting impulses about going to work on Monday or taking an additional vacation day?
A: Because sex (not with him) was part of the subtext, and it felt more gracious and comfortable to express the possibilities and options through the shorthand of roleplaying characters than to be personal about it.
9. Which would I prefer: a full-time first-level project manager position in my department, or to remain Jeannie's assistant and expand my duties to include project management for her? Would the loss of the personal working relationship with her (the best part of my current job) more than compensate for the consistently higher challenge of a PM position, plus the release from being joined at the org chart with Miss V? Hurm. Put like that, the answer becomes obvious. And not because of Miss V (although obviously that's a huge consideration) but because of the challenge. My brain is slowly rotting away at my day job.
10. Be excellent to each other. And May God stand between you and harm in all the empty places you must walk.
2. So is honest, respectful challenge.
3. Bodies are delicious, but meaningless to me unless you also expose and share your mind and soul.
4. Family is sacred.
5. Chivalry is not so much a 'masculine' virtue as it is a virtue of the powerful. The courtesy and self-restraint that are characterized as "chivalrous" only have meaning if they are exercised by one who is free, by status or strength, to abuse or otherwise take advantage of another.
6. I would enjoy and find more satisfaction in housework if it, like study, resulted in enduring gains, not a temporary victory over entropy.
7. Why is it that an increase in a community's affluence tends to decrease the value placed on Hospitality, instead of the other way around? (Actually, the answer "Because it becomes less urgent for survival" comes to mind.)
8. Q: Why did I invoke some of my avatars in email with one of my best male friends yesterday, instead of owning my conflicting impulses about going to work on Monday or taking an additional vacation day?
A: Because sex (not with him) was part of the subtext, and it felt more gracious and comfortable to express the possibilities and options through the shorthand of roleplaying characters than to be personal about it.
9. Which would I prefer: a full-time first-level project manager position in my department, or to remain Jeannie's assistant and expand my duties to include project management for her? Would the loss of the personal working relationship with her (the best part of my current job) more than compensate for the consistently higher challenge of a PM position, plus the release from being joined at the org chart with Miss V? Hurm. Put like that, the answer becomes obvious. And not because of Miss V (although obviously that's a huge consideration) but because of the challenge. My brain is slowly rotting away at my day job.
10. Be excellent to each other. And May God stand between you and harm in all the empty places you must walk.
